Making a move on the Bubble, NL Tournament

Game type: 20+2 Multi Table Rebuy Tourney
Your image: Very Tight
Stage of tourney: Rebuys are long gone and now you’re sitting on the bubble, just 2 people off the first stage of pay
Avg stack: About 65,000
Misc notes: You’ve been blinding for the pass few laps due to cold cards and the hope of blinding into the money. Although, you’re now sitting 31st in a field of 32.
Your hand: K♦K♣

Preflop: You:

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Phil McCrackin

Worst. Advice. Ever. ALL~IN is the only possible play here. The very last thing you need is to blow 1/2 your stack on a stupid little raise that gets called by junk and you get flopped into oblivion. Boooooooooo.

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Ruckus

Yeah make a minimum raise and let me call you from the blind with A3 and spike an ace. The bubble is completely irrelevant and the minimum raise is half your stack so put it all in and hope for a loose call. Even though you are playing tight and moving all in from under the gun people have to acknowledge your stack size. Your about to be blinded out the game so you could be making this play with a wide range of hands. I’d call your all in with any reasonable hand.

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Sisnarf

push min raise is death

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Mary

All in. You might get a call from a big stack, your cards might hold up. But with these blinds and antes, you are not going 19 more hands, and you’re unlikely to get better cards than these. I think it is more likely that that the wisest choice for your blinds is to sacrifice the $3000 and so your caller would be either the big stacks which is the same as it would be any one of those 19 times. Go for it! (and pray — silently!).

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Bill

I agree, move in. Minraise or limp as short stack would be met with suspicion. Folding is stupid of course, but if you want you can use your time bank and move in at the last second; maybe 2 people will bust before this hand plays out and you’ll make the money even if you suffer a horrible suckout.

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anonymous

Bill’s plan is clearly dominant over merely pushing. Also gives your opponents time to think about not calling when near the bubble. Wait for last 5 seconds though,

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I agree somewhat. Take some time, make a decent raise. You’ll wipe out most others, and maybe even get put all in by someone with 2 over cards or a suited ace something else, if its even out there. You go all in preflop, your just as likely to get your ass lit up by rags or aces by some big stack calling you, as you would have been if you had a chance to see the flop, the difference… by not going all in, you are still palying poker,.. You want to play the lotto? don’t go all in, buy a ticket. You feel like praying? Don’t play cards,… save your money, and yourself… go to church….

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